Valencia Test
BAYLISS (DUCATI XEROX) HEADS DAY 1 OF OFFICIAL SUPERBIKE
TEST IN VALENCIA
Valencia (Spain), 18th March : Troy Bayliss was the front-runner
for the factory Ducati Xerox Team in the first of two days
testing for the World Superbike Championship regulars, excluding
Honda Ten Kate, at Valencia. In glorious sunshine, the Australian
rider was fastest throughout the day, recording his best lap
of 1m34.482s in the cooler morning session. Team-mate Lorenzo
Lanzi was second-quickest in the morning, but had a crash
in the afternoon and dropped a place as Troy Corser (Yamaha)
moved up to split the two Ducatis.
"I did a lot of laps today in the two sessions"
declared Troy, "and this morning we did really good on
the race tyre and I was quite happy. This afternoon it was
quite windy and the track wasn't in such a good condition
but we did a long-run anyway. The performance was better than
the race last year but we weren't completely happy with it.
We'll test a couple more tyres tomorrow to get a better idea,
play with the setting a bit but overall the bike is working
well. I did a 33m7s here last year and maybe I can go better
than that tomorrow morning. We'll have to wait and see but
for the moment everything's going well and it's a nice little
freshen-up for Donington.""
"I set the third quickest time of the day, and the fourth
in the afternoon" commented Lorenzo. "It's not bad
but to be honest I expected a bit more seeing as I had been
really quick here in November. I'm still some way off those
times I set then but today we tried a lot of different solutions.
I had a crash at the hairpin turn 2, but it had no serious
consequences. In the afternoon there was a lot of wind and
we only began to lap well again towards the end of the session.
Valencia is always the same, early in the afternoon the track
is always a disaster!"
DAY 1 TIMES : 1. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox)
1m34.482s; 2. Corser (Yamaha) 1m34.895s; 3. Lanzi (Ducati
Xerox) 1m35.128s; 4. Biaggi (Suzuki) 1m35.203s; 5. Haga (Yamaha)
1m35.593s; 6. Nieto (Kawasaki) 1m35.607s; 7. Xaus (Ducati)
1m35.627s; 8. Polita (Suzuki) 1m35.769s; 9. Kagayama (Suzuki)
1m35.785s; 10. Laconi (Kawasaki) 1m35.785s.
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